It's funny you mention Gore. About halfway through this thing I was reminded of his movie about climate too. I totally agree this is mostly fear mongering (as many have commented), but for someone who didn't know squat and didn't really care about our food system (ie. me), it made me think. The only thing it got resonably correct was the unsustainability of our current farming models and some of the reasons why it's gotten here (corn/farm subsidies). BTW, if you've read any good research papers on the subject, please link some.

Speaking of hippies, I stopped by my token hippy friend's place the other day and they were watching this documentary about food. It was called Food Inc. and after literally the first 5 minutes, I planted myself on the couch and watched it. I always knew our (ie. us Westerners) diet was pretty bad, but I really had no idea HOW bad the food system is. We're basically eating crap 24/7.

Long story short, I've been reading up about this topic lately and can suggest a few easily accessible resources for anyone who wants to learn a bit more:
Food Inc. - A decent documentary to get you started.
The Omnivores Dilemma - An easy read that can point in the right direction for further research.

Did anyone else google hemostat then immediately start laughing? Where are my mod points when I need em....

>This gives many ignorant people justification to feel like they are really one of those 1 in 40.

>I'm sure I could do it

Oh the irony...

Meowing on the phone doesn't detract from her driving ability in the slightest.

In other words, perhaps their attention is more or less permanently divided between driving and a Walter Mitty like daydream. Then the phone distracts them from their daydream. That would imply that their driving performance doesn't decline because even when not distracted they drive like the rest of us would while on the phone.

TFA doesn't have enough information to know if the analysis considered that or not, it only spoke of relative performance for each individual.

Who cares what it costs the end user? The porn industry has figured out what the market is demanding and has switched supply to match that, making profit in the progress. More money is coming in than is going out, where it's coming from doesn't matter.

Oh, the irony of the porn industry being the only part of the moviemaking establishment that happily embraces the new tech. MPAA guys, are you paying attention? Piling on even more DRM and legislation won't solve your problems because we'll just watch more porn instead. ;-)

"It has never been a requirement for the entire work to be copied to be infringement. "

You can use parts of it under the Fair Use. A small clip, quote, some screen shots. It is getting less and less, and now days teachers are advised not to make copies of things because they fear legal recourse even though it is legal.

But if they have no idea how much you downloaded (if anything at all), it seams a reasonable defense if done right.(IANAL)

Heh, every post that defends copyright in this particular thread is down-modded, and every one that says "zomg copyright is bad" is upmodded. Brilliant!

Don't you lose your geek membership card for not knowing who Alonzo Church was?

Yeah, that's just embarrassing.

How about Mode.

Sheesh, good thing I always select below average~

Anyways, my point is 'average' doesn't mean there will be the same number above average as there is below average.